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The Violently Angelic Desperado of Valkyrie Reborn is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Cpt Valentine Morrison with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 18.925 billion Privateers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Command Bridge. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Crew economy, worth a remarkable 4,079 trillion Shares a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 215,552 Shares, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Witches' brews set off Geiger counters, people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares, the nation's apology for those it has executed in the last year has come a little late for some, and most people suffer from some form of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Valkyrie Reborn's national animal is the Space-Monkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Cult of Cthulhu.

Valkyrie Reborn is ranked 7,112^th in the world and 6^th in The Bar on the corner of every region for Largest Black Market, with 993 trillion Standard Monetary Units.